Detention, the Danger Shop (9/23)

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

Ms. Frizzle is waiting for the students inside the Danger Shop, which had been transformed to look like a lab environment. The teacher herself, however, was in a khaki dress with khaki pumps, a pith helmet atop her frizzy red hair, and two bones for earrings. "Good morning, students!" she trilled cheerfully when they arrived. There was a large blackboard leaning behind her with a list of names:

Belthazor
Sam Carter
John Constantine
William Kessler
Shrodinger
Seras Victoria

"Today for your detention, we're going to help out an old friend of mine! Dr. Carmina Skeledon is working at a dinosaur dig in the Badlands of Alberta, and I'm afraid that last time my class visited her we misplaced one of her fossils. But I think that this group is just the right people for the job! So!" She led the way out of the Danger Shop. "Everyone to the bus!"

[[Today's detention brought to you by The Magic School Bus: The Busasaurus. Feel free to have your characters believe they're still in the Danger Shop. Ms Frizzle won't disillusion anyone. No visitors for this one, due to temporal distance. You'll be back around 4pm FST. Please to be waiting for OCD.

OCD up, have fun! Also, I don't have many icons, so my Brachiosaurus icon? Doesn't necessarily mean it's a Brachiosaurus. And I apologise in advance for spelling errors. I'll be around all day until about 6:30 AST, but I will be able to pick up pings tomorrow.]]

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Everyone to the bus!

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

"We might as well get to know each other! My name is Ms Frizzle and I am the new science teacher! I used to teach at Walkerville Elementary School. And this is Liz." Liz waved from beside the driver's seat. Liz was also wearing a small pith helmet. "Your turn!"

Re: Everyone to the bus!

[demonbelthazor]

"Belthazor," Bel said sullenly, still annoyed he had to spend Saturday in detention.

Re: Everyone to the bus!

[cat-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

"I'm Schrodinger," Schrodinger said, putting his feet up on the seat across from him. "I'm everywhere and nowhere."

Re: Everyone to the bus!

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Elementary school? "I'm Sam Carter."

Re: Everyone to the bus!

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"I'm William Kessler. The uh, lucky lottery winner."

Hit it, Liz!

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

Once everyone had arrived and was on board, Ms Frizzle bounced into the driver's seat and flung the doors closed. "Hit it, Liz!" she crowed, and gunned it. The bus bounced, hopped, skipped, and vanished in a bang and flash of white light, reappearing in the middle of what appeared to be lush wetlands. The students will notice that they're also in safari clothes now.

"Welcome to Alberta, Canada, circa sixty-seven million years ago!" the teacher announced. "We're looking for an Albertasaurus egg! It looks like this - Liz?"

Liz held up a picture of the egg.

"Alright, have fun!"

[[Yep, you'll encounter dinosaurs from here on out.]]

Re: Hit it, Liz!

[demonbelthazor]

Bel looked down at his new attire. "What the hell is this?" he said.

Re: Hit it, Liz!

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

"The appropriate clothing, of course!" Ms Frizzle replied, unconsciously posing in her own.

Attacked!

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

Suddenly, there's a crashing sound through the underbrush and an unmistakeable roar! Someone isn't happy about poking around in their playground.

"Uh-oh . . ." Ms Frizzle said, still managing to sounding cheerful as the Tyrannasaurus rex burst through the trees. "Looks like we're going to need a little firepower! Students, get ready to take chances! Make mistakes! And get . . . tyrannical!"

The bus zapped them all with something, causing them to grow in size to be a match for the T. rex, which suddenly didn't look quite so sure of itself any more.

[[Fight!]]

Re: Attacked!

[cat-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

Scrhodinger took a step back and watched as the other fought the T-Rex. He wanted to see how they all moved.

Re: Attacked!

[demonbelthazor]

"Okay, this is cool," Bel said, summoning a super-sized fireball and throwing it at the T-Rex.

Re: Attacked!

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

The T. rex ducked and roared at the fireball singed its shoulder. It took a few shuddering steps towards Bel, undaunted and now kind of pissed.

Re: Attacked!

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam was a little disoriented at first by the abrupt change in altitude and perspective. She wasn't sure exactly what to do to fight the T-rex, but she supposed she could always just kick its feet out from underneath it and run away quickly.

Re: Attacked!

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

More big things! Grr. The T. rex advanced on Sam, its head low as it roared.

Re: Attacked!

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy grinned, and adopted a fighting stance. Was it messed up that he'd always wanted to do this?

Re: Attacked!

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

Nope.

The T. rex wouldn't have recognised a fighting stance if it smacked it in the nose. Which it was probably about to. It saw food and charged.

Found!

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

T. rex dealt with and students back to their normal size, Ms Frizzle led them on their continued safari. Suddenly, she drops to the ground at the crest of a hill and peers over. "A ha!" she says softly. "I think we've found it!"

Below is a slowly moving herd of Maiasaur, a few nests dotting the flat meadow. The Albertasaurus egg is clearly comfortably snug in one of the nearest ones, being guarded by a placidly chewing Maiasaur.

[[Fetch quest almost done!]]

Re: Found!

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy was confused. "I thought we were looking for an egg belonging to something that looks like a T-Rex.

Home!

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

"Well, students, wasn't that fun?" Ms Frizzle asked as the bus reappeared on the front lawn of the school. "And I hope you all learned your lesson and won't have detention ever again! Other teachers might not be as lenient as I am! I have to get this egg - which had turned into a fossil when they time-traveled again - back to Carmina! Goodbye!"

And she hopped back inside the bus and it vanished again.

Re: Home!

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Okay, so, was this typical?" Billy asked the others.

Re: Home!

[cat-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

Schrodinger pulled a few vials from his pocket and grinned slyly.

Dinosaur DNA. Wouldn't the Doc be pleased?

_{[[Feel free to confiscate them if you want.]]}

OOC

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

Today's detention, if I had typed it up last night while I was drinking, would have been The Magic School Bus Explores the Penal System. Carlos would show you how to get shanked for being a smartass, and Arnold should have stayed home to avoid becoming the bitch. The students's clothes would all be transformed into orange jumpsuits, Liz would have a wee baton, Ms Frizzle would be shouting "Hose them down!", and Phoebe would be complaining that "At my old school, we were never given the lethal inject-"

Um. Sorry about the childhoods there.

Re: OOC

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

I'll be back in about an hour.

Re: OOC

[cat-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

Does Schrodinger's pith helmet take into account his ears?

Re: OOC

[getfrizzled.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the vanish. There were guys in kilts and blue facepaint and a digerydoo, and next thing I know I'm standing in the middle of the rugby field screaming "FREEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOM! YE DAMNED SASSANACH WILL COME NAE FURTHA!" at the PEI team.